Children

Its time for our summer bridal show! It is Sunday August 29th 11-4 at the Springfield Expo Center. The address is 635 St.Louis St. Springfield MO

All attendee’s have free valet parking provided by Springfield Parking,so, just pull up to the front door! Make sure to pre-register  at www.metbride.com

Welcome to Chloe’s world! She is a sweet little girl who has the world in her hand. She has her beautifully decorated playhouse, chicken running about, and very loving parents who love pictures of their little girl. As you can tell this was a fun session for me, a total playground for creativity! I hope you enjoy the images below and that you get a sense of who this special little girl is

Dawn

I recently did my 2010 commercial photoshoot for  Mak.a.boo. I’m their lifestyle photographer and I LOVE it!!

If you ever need baby/childrens products you have to check this great business out. here is a link to the site http://www.makaboo.com

Hope you enjoy the preview of their great products!

Dawn

I wanted to share a few images from this beautiful couples wedding. Emma was a doll to work with! She was a photographers dream client, had fun, was laid back and up for whatever! Andrew was willing to take the June heat like a champ and was pretty willing to love on his girl for pictures (not a hard task Every moment I spent with these two was so much fun, maybe if I’m lucky they will renew their vows every year!

Hugs to Emma and Andrew!

Emma, I hope the surprise Honeymoon was amazing!

Here is a few pics from a super fun couple! They are always laughing together, it made it so fun and easy to photograph them. At the end of the wedding day Lauren told me she was a photography major in college! I had no idea! Needless to say I’m honored they chose me as their photographer

This is a sweet couple who have been together for years. They have waited for this day for along time so they had a full day with lots of festivities! I posted a few images I worked up hope to have more of them later. I also posted a couple of the father daughter dance, this was one of those dances where you could tell they had a very strong father daughter bond.

Thanks to Christina and Trent for sharing such a wonderful day!

Here is a session with a newborn that was just photographed this week. If you would like this type of a session make sure to let us know you want our

Newborn Baby Session. It requires a bit more time so we need to schedule for it. I promise you will love it!!

This is one of those images that says so many things. This sweet boy is a new big brother who is very protective of his baby brother.

This family warms my heart, I always enjoy my time with them.  Thanks Aiden for always giving me such great moments.

Needless to say it was a great year at WPPI. I had my first platform class that filled up and had a waiting line waiting outside the door. All the photographers that attended have been so kind with the e-mail and facebook messages telling me they loved the class. I hope to speak again soon, I will be writing down anything that happen within our photography business and at Metropolitan Bride (Wedding show and Magazine) that can help others to grow their business.

While at WPPI I won 1st place in Albums (event non-wedding). This alone was a huge honor, it was on a personal project I had been working on for a year. The biggest surprise was when I was presented with the Grand Award for Albums. It is kind of the ultimate to win that award, to do it with such a heartfelt project was very meaningful to me. Thank you to every judge who “got” my story. It was a very different album than most had seen before. Because of the personal nature of this project I do not want to post it on my blog, but I would be happy to direct those to it that want to see it. Send me an e-mail at dawn@dawnshields.com.

Thank you to everybody who has showed me love and support as an artist and a speaker. You all mean so much!

Hugs!

Dawn